“I mean, be honest,” she challenged. “Didn’t Hillary’s ‘dead broke’ comment make you think, just for a second, about Mitt saying Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, or he likes firing people?”

“And like Mitt, after decades in public service we still can only really speculate on what Hillary Clinton is all about,” she noted. “Is she a triangulating moderate, a secret liberal, a DLC [Democratic Leadership Council] Wall Street Dem? What will she run on? What sort of president would she actually be?”

Ball asserted that Hillary’s approval is now starting to “ebb” because people are remembering “the real Hillary” from 2008. “She exuded confidence, but with no core belief,” she explained. “It seemed like the real answer to why she was running for president is simply because she wanted to be president.”

“Will 2016 be different? It’s possible,” Ball concluded. “But so far I haven’t seen change I can believe in just yet.”